Stomach/pouch..its how you use it....

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What I was saying was that if the person takes the time to chew the food, so

that it goes into the stomach CHEWED real well and mixed with saliva, it sure

helps the stomach to do whatever it has to do, big or small. I cant eat as much

so proportionatly it seems my stomach still does the same thing it always did,

only only with less acid and intrinsic factor. i dont over eat so it doesnt

push out, Ive got a band on the bottom, i dont drink to wash it out, so hoefully

it sits around and digests like a the mini basket put in the washing machine

for small loads.

I really think that taking the time to CHEW thoroughtly is vewry important, as

it not drinking and not eating so much as to push some foods through the pouch

and into the intestines, feeling pouch fullness is an art!

Now I realize that many people DO CHOSE TO eat more, including ME AT TIMES...and

do not chew well, (I DONT HAVE THAT OPTION) and drink liquids with their meals,

(I DONT HAVE THAT OPTION) and dont have restrictive bands along with their

bypasses, but chewing well, and not overeating, not drinking liquids can and

does really help with absorbing the good nutrients...like protein, and

vitamins...and might SAVE A FEW STOMAS FOR NEWER POST OPS AND POSSIBLY HELP A

FEW MORE PROXIES and OTHERS ABSORB MORE NUTRIENTS FROM GOOD FOODS.

SO.. eat the potato chips whole. no chewing! onlky kidding

I must be a long proxie, cause I DO malabsorb fats pretty well. I can do way

more fats than I should be able to and I hold my weight. i dont know what he did

but he did it good.

My labs keep coming up sweet, my protein dropped for the first time,,a tiny bit

lower than norm, but my B12 is in the high 800s, iron is still solid,

everything else is real good still, cant fighure out WHY, except I HAVE TO CHEW

EVERYTHING REAL WELL...and go laugh..but I swear by the childerens CHEWABLE

VITAMINS, with iron, I take 2 a day, sometimnes 3 in the winter in honor of NE

darkness,,, have been since early post op, and will continue. Also lots of

chewable vit C when eating, to add acid in the pouch for digestion.

I will find out about A and Zinc tomorrow, everything else is well within

normal range in newest very full blood work, and trust me Im no model eater, Id

be embarrased to post my daily stuff unless it were a good day like yesterday.

it could just as easily be a few protein shakes and a bag of cheese popcorn thru

the day and some icecream at night and some cashews and a couple of fingers

full of salsa with some corn chips and sour cream and biting into a half peeled

avacado while running throgh thru the kitchen on the way to the car if even

that balanced...

there is not alot of malabsorption in having a small stomach and a small AMOUNT

OF BYPASS, THE MALABSORPTION IS IN THE ABSORPTION FUNCTION OF THE

INTESTINES,WHICH IS WHAT THE INTESTINES ARE FOR. PROBELEMS ARE THAT MANY PEOPLE

DONT CHEW THEIR FOODS.

IF YOU PUT THE RIGHT THINGS INTO THE STOMACH...CHEWED FOODS...PROXIES WILL DO

FINE!

eat hamburger! Chew it 50 times !!!! Ditto all protein, fish, chicken,

whatever.

AND DO PROTEIN SHAKES TOO!! I DO AT LEAST 2-3 A DAY, BUT NOT WITH FOOD!

:)aDria

<< The proxy bypass.. a bit of malabsorption sure but here I go again, refreshed

AFTER THE ASBS

....time and time again, no matter who I talk to and now matter where I go here

in NE, AFTER the ASBS conference these surgeons ALLcome back fresh with NEW

info and babbling and thiking on their feet drawing diagrams and they WONT give

in to too much malabsorption in a proxy, certainly enought to let you lose

waeight and maintain loss, but nowhere is there any reseach that backs up

anything about alot of nutrtional problems

THEY are saying that if I STILL have that critical part of the

duadenal-jejeanal interface where everything meets and has a JUICE SQUIRTING

PARTY INTO THE INTESTINES, then I am indeed NOT malabsorbing alot of crtical

nurtients that I need, and if I am its cause I am NOT eating a healhty post op

meal plan on a regular basis @3 years post op and have gone back to some sloppy

ways MORE OFTEN THAN I WANT TO ADMIT..>>

Message: 8

Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 16:09:03 -0700

Subject: Re: Iron Anemia?

The popular myth is that proximals are not malabsorptive, only distals are.

They taught it at the conference, even.

I do not concur for the reasons you said. Without a stomach (digestion

vat), there is no digestion, ergo absorption is pretty hard to manage, no

matter how long the common channel.

The problem areas will always be AT LEAST:

protein

iron

calcium

A, D, E

zinc

B

probably potassium & magnesium when the others get whacked.

Thanks,

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